DangerZones has hit the App Store today.
*** Disclosure: I have to say right up front here that this app is the first app from AppDudes, a company run by a very good friend of mine. I have no financial interest in the app or the company “ but I do consider the guy who runs the company probably the brightest, most razor-sharp person I ‘ve met in my time on this planet, one of the people I most admire and respect, and someone I ‘m lucky enough to call a friend as well. I still feel as if I ‘m able to judge this new app fairly “ but take this with as many grains of salt as you need, because the app comes from the best AppDude I know. 🙂
DangerZones uses Google Maps to present you with data on over 200,000 vehicle fatality locations across the USA over the last five years. The data is presented quickly and effectively “ and can help you understand where the most dangerous areas on in your own neighborhood, or on your daily trip to work route, or on a route you ‘re planning to take when making a trip.
Here are some of the features and notable points about DangerZones:
- Five years of motor vehicle fatality data
- Easy-on-the-eye statistics and graphics
- Advanced Google Maps technology enables superior data rendering
- GPS Location Services provide your current location and display up to 1,000 DangerZones.
- GPS Follow Me automatically repositions the map as you drive.
- Tap a pushpin to see collision details including day/date/time, sex/age, number of fatalities
- Also see speed, drug/alcohol involvement, ejection, extraction, hit and run, and more
- Search for other US locations by city and state with automatic lookups
- Add and Save any map location to your personal MyZones
- Instantly retrieve a saved location from MyZones
- Display vehicle fatality facts from the NHTSA and other sources
- Learn about state and federal laws regarding blood alcohol limits and drunk driver statistics
I ‘ve been using the app for a few weeks in its near-final, pre-release form, and have been extremely impressed with it. Here ‘s a comment I gave my friend for use on their site and App Store page:
There are plenty of iPhone apps that have a wow factor to them. DangerZones is one of the few truly useful apps that ‘ll have you shaking your head and saying ‘WOW ‘ over and over. It presents a ton of killer data, quickly and impressively, that can help you avoid areas on our roads that have proved critically dangerous.
You can find DangerZones in the App Store now, priced at just $0.99 right now. That price is 80% off its intended regular price, and is just for its first 72 hours in the store.
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